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Crawl Space Fire Forces Family Out of Home

A fire traced to a crawl space under a boiler caused little damage but forced a family in Westport’s Compo Beach area to spend the night elsewhere, the Fire Department said today.

Westport firefighters operate at a Fairfield Avenue fire in the Compo Beach area Tuesday night. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo

Firefighters responded to a report of an odor of smoke in the basement of a home on Fairfield Avenue at 10:03 p.m. Tuesday and found smoke coming from an exterior wall at the front of the house, said Assistant Chief Larry Conklin.

The fire was found to be in a crawl space under the boiler and was quickly extinguished and structural damage was held to a minimum, he said.

Conklin said firefighters had to operate in wind chill temperatures close to zero. “The extreme cold could have hampered firefighting operations if the fire was not quickly extinguished,” he said.

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